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Mr. CARPENTER'S Life and Times of Milton, is a kind

of politi- cal biography of the great Republican, in which the events he was engaged in are illustrated by extracts from his own writings, or the commentaries of his various biographers. In an under- taking of this kind, intended for popular use, little beyond reading and fairness was needed ; and these the author has brought to his task. The little volume will furnish the people with an out- line of Mit.Totv's public life, stripped of that misrepresentation which Tory and " moderate" writers have felt themselves obliged to throw over it. It will also be useful as affording specimens of the writer's prose works.